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Archive - Oct 10, 2011

Opening of Pan-American Games only ten days away

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.10.10.radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Havana, Cuba. We are only ten days away from the opening of the Pan-American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, next October 14. Several delegations have already been registered, like Venezuela, Guatemala and El Salvador. The forthcoming continental contest will admittedly be the hardest in history. What’s going on? The point is many nations have announced that they seek to achieve their best performance ever in the capital of the state of Jalisco. For instance, Mexico has categorically said so and so has Puerto Rico. Read More

Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon says Gross won't be free unilaterally

<p style="text-align: justify;">MEXICO CITY (AP) — AP Interview: "Cuba won't unilaterally free Gross" has just said a senior Cuban official and added the United States should not expect Cuba to make a unilateral humanitarian gesture to release an imprisoned American government contractor. Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon says expecting such a gesture of behalf of Alan Gross "is not reasonable." Read More

Cuba to train officials in South Africa

<p style="text-align: justify;">As part of a pilot project, the Department of Home Affairs will begin with the re-training of 350 officers of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said that Russia and Cuba served as models for the new training system. In a first for Cuba’s growing skilled-labor exports, the South African government agreed to use a dozen interior ministry officials from Cuba to train new immigration officers, South Africa’s Business Day reported. Read More

A quake rattled Chile with series of earth tremors

<p style="text-align: justify;">Santiago, Chile, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) The quake today was registered at 07:55 local time, with epicentre 116 km deep, some 50 km southern Putre community, in the Arica Parinacota region, in the country's northern tip, reported the Seismology Service of the University of Chile. A 4.2-magnitude quake rocked on Sunday northern Chile, in the wake of a series of tremors that have been shaking the country for two weeks. Read More

Venezuela and Russia governments agreed to expand strategic alliance

<p style="text-align: justify;">Caracas, (Prensa Latina) The Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and the Russian deputy Prime Minister, Igor Sechin met at&nbsp; Miraflores Palace and signed agreements on the oil and gas, finance, trade and agriculture fields.They have just decided to expand their strategic alliance which resulted in new bilateral business agreements.The reunion was held at Miraflores Palace. Read More

Two Cuban films awarded in France

<p style="text-align: justify;">granma.co.cu. 9 de Octubre 2011. The Cuban movie Boleto al Paraíso (A Ticket to Paradise), by Cuban filmmaker Gerardo Chijona (Adorables mentiras, Paraíso bajo las estrellas and Perfecto amor equivocado) was granted the popularity award at the closing ceremony of the 20th Biarritz Film Festival. Young actor and cast member Hector Medina, who is in the city representing the movie, announced the good news via a telephone call from Biarritz, where the best of the Latin American cinema competes every year. Read More

Tampa man Steve Rupert ready to become a tourist guide in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Steve Huettel, Times Staff Writer.Monday, October 10, 2011. With restrictions down, Tampa man is up for being guide to Cuba.&nbsp; “The only place you’ll see cars rambling around like this is Cuba,” Steve Rupert says of his 1940 Chevrolet Deluxe in Ybor City. Rupert, a professional mediator in Tampa, has created a second life traveling to Cuba with tour groups of five to 20 people. Read More

Cubadisco recording fair 2012 to honor the Guitar

<p style="text-align: justify;">cubasi.cu | 09 de Octubre 2011. The gathering, scheduled to run from May 19 through 26, will be dedicated to guitar, its local versions the “tres” and the “laud” and their relatives in Latin America. Under the slogan Cuba, the Island of One Thousand Strings, Cubadisco 2012’s President of Honor will be maestro Leo Brouwer, the most important and representative Cuban guitarist in the world.Preparations for Cuba’s largest recording industry fair, Cubadisco 2012, began in Havana this week well in advance to create the proper atmosphere for such an important artistic event. Read More

Cultural agreement reached between Cuba and Peru

<p style="text-align: justify;">Havana, (ACN).- A memorandum for exchanges and cooperation between the culture ministries of Cuba and Peru was signed on Wednesday in this capital. The document was penned by the Deputy Ministers of this sector from the two nations, the agreement will favor the strengthening of relations between the two countries, referred to literary publications, technical and academic cooperation between artistic teaching centers, and the promotion of audiovisuals. Read More

John Lennon's music recalled in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">granma.co.cu . 9 de Octubre 2011.For some time now, it has become usual that during the month of October Cuban artists, closely related to the mythical work of The Beatles, pay tribute to the iconic member of the Four Fantastic, John Lennon. This year, a group of Cuban rock and roll bands, which have kept alive the Beatle’s mania throughout history, will pay tribute to Lennon on his 71st anniversary at Havana’s Submarino Amarillo (Yellow Submarine) Cultural Center, located on 17 and 6, Plaza de la Revolución. Read More